The violence in Abbasyia marked a significant escalation in tensions between activists, who have been at the vanguard of the revolution, and Egypt's military rulers, known as the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, who assumed control of the country on 11 February.
ISTANBUL — The Turkish government said Monday that one of its fighter planes shot down a Syrian military helicopter that had flown into Turkish airspace, a potentially significant escalation of tensions between the neighbors and former allies, now bitterly divided over Syria's civil war.
The events that unfolded Sunday mark a significant escalation in fighting between Ukraine and Russia, with each side blaming the other after a tugboat and two gunships were seized and several Ukrainian naval officers were shot.
"This is a significant escalation of tension between the United States and Iran, and the start of a more dangerous phase in the West's attempt to curtail Iran's nuclear program," he wrote in a new analysis.
The Priebus report and Rove's Conservative Victory Project together mark a significant escalation in the battle between the center and the right over the soul of the Republican Party.
The court order was a significant escalation of long-simmering tensions between the judiciary and the government and threatened to plunge the country into fresh political turmoil as its leaders debated the contours of a new strategic relationship with the United States.
Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart has demanded that the chairman of Fairfax Media improve the group's share price or resign, in a significant escalation of the war of words between the two.
So waiving it, even temporarily, is a significant escalation of the Fed's rescue efforts.
Any such move would mark a significant escalation in the crisis.
The fluffy jumper, therefore, marks a significant escalation in ambition from the statement knit.
